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The Aryan Path December 1938

1938

And even as a weak or invalid member of a family receives the greatest attention and consideration from the rest of the family so in ministering to the poor the lame the blind the deaf and in general the despised and rejected of men Jesus spends his life. [...] Do we find the Church capable of meeting this test ? Is the Chuch waing war for the rights of the oppresed or is it engaged in exploiting the ignorance and helplessness of the oppressed in order to make them fight in the interests of the rich and the powerful ? During the last war 1938 ] JESUS VERSUS THE CHURCH 579 Christian pulpits were turned into rcruiting platforms and the Church acti [...] Convincing evidence is brought together in Madame Blavatsky's books and artcles of the great extent to which the Gospel setting of the teachings of Jesus as well as the forms of the later Christian Church is indebted to the older religions of the pagan world.—EDs.] On the 6th of January of each year the Church celebrates the feast of the Epiphany to commemorate the visit of the Wise Men to th [...] The portent of a luminous star in the east before the advent of"594 THE ARYAN PATH December the Messiah is a very old Jewish trdition and probably owes its origin to the prophecy of the ancient Magus Balaam : A Star shall arise out of Jacob ". In the reign of the Emperor Hadrian advantage was taken of this hoary prophecy by a pseudo-Messiah who assumed the name of Barchocba (Son of the Sta [...] D. Beresford concludes his study of the Religion of the Future enmerating the powers and qualities of those who are the silent pioneers of the Cycle which will open in the last quarter of this century.—EDs.} It has been foreshadowed by adepts that the new Spiritual Teacher will be manifested in the last quarter of the present century.* Let us then in the first place assume that as a certaint
philosophy religion
Pages
59
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120051
Segment Pages Author Actions
Religion is Soul-Freedom
573-575 unknown view
I.—Jesus Versus the Church
575-580 Bharatan Kumarappa view
II.—Christ in India
581-584 Jack Common view
Christianity and Society
585-591 unknown view
The Star of Bethlehem
592-595 Keith Percy view
The Future of Religion
596-601 J.D. Beresford view
Our Common Humanity
602-605 unknown view
Variety in Mysticism
606-614 unknown view
New Books and Old
615-629 unknown view
Ends and Sayings
630-630 unknown view

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